Re:Ex-Googlers Train Machine Army to Sift Out Crooks
by brandonb on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:42PM
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(I work at Sift Science.)
One thing to note -- our system analyzes a whole bunch of patterns for each user. So just shopping at 3am by itself won't cause problems, nor will using a prepaid gift card by itself. But if a user matches multiple fraud patterns, then they're likely to get a high fraud score.
One thing to note -- our system analyzes a whole bunch of patterns for each user. So just shopping at 3am by itself won't cause problems, nor will using a prepaid gift card by itself. But if a user matches multiple fraud patterns, then they're likely to get a high fraud score.